(cons '+ (cons 1 (cons 1 nil))) doesn't look like (+ 1 1).

What about `(+ 1 1) or (quote (+ 1 1)) then?

	▲	charcircuit 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think you are missing my point. My point is that manually building AST data structures instead of taking them from existing code looks different in Lisp too.